Tag: Oriental Philosophy

FacebookTwitterStumbleUponTumblrReddit This guest post is from Regan Jacklin, a fellow traveler and blogger I met in Mexico late last year. It’s a chapter taken from his handbook Man’s Guide To Well-Being, which you can currently download for […]

FacebookTwitterStumbleUponTumblrReddit Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen. Nan-in served the tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pouring. […]

FacebookTwitterStumbleUponTumblrRedditWhen the abbot and his disciples practised their evening meditation, a cat who lived in the monastery made so much noise that it distracted them. So one day the abbot ordered that the cat be […]

FacebookTwitterStumbleUponTumblrRedditThere once was an old farmer who worked in the fields growing crops. One day, his only horse ran away. Soon after, neighbours from the village visited and offered their sympathies “What a shame, now […]